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The innovative Federated Multi-Task Learning (FMTL) approach consolidates the benefits of Federated Learning (FL) and Multi-Task Learning (MTL), enabling collaborative model training on multi-task learning datasets. However, a comprehensive…

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The Federated Learning setting has a central server coordinating the training of a model on a network of devices. One of the challenges is variable training performance when the dataset has a class imbalance. In this paper, we address this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-13 Dipankar Sarkar , Ankur Narang , Sumit Rai

Federated learning is essential for enabling collaborative model training across decentralized data sources while preserving data privacy and security. This approach mitigates the risks associated with centralized data collection and…

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Federated Prototype Learning (FedPL) has emerged as an effective strategy for handling data heterogeneity in Federated Learning (FL). In FedPL, clients collaboratively construct a set of global feature centers (prototypes), and let local…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Xinghao Wu , Jianwei Niu , Xuefeng Liu , Guogang Zhu , Jiayuan Zhang , Shaojie Tang , Wei Chen

Federated multi-task learning (FMTL) aims to simultaneously learn multiple related tasks across clients without sharing sensitive raw data. However, in the decentralized setting, existing FMTL frameworks are limited in their ability to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Chaouki Ben Issaid , Praneeth Vepakomma , Mehdi Bennis

The fusion of complementary multimodal information is crucial in computational pathology for accurate diagnostics. However, existing multimodal learning approaches necessitate access to users' raw data, posing substantial privacy risks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Yuanzhe Peng , Jieming Bian , Jie Xu

Federated learning has received significant attention for its ability to simultaneously protect customer privacy and leverage distributed data from multiple devices for model training. However, conventional approaches often focus on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Jiahao Zeng , Wolong Xing , Liangtao Shi , Xin Huang , Jialin Wang , Zhile Cao , Zhenkui Shi

We present federated momentum contrastive clustering (FedMCC), a learning framework that can not only extract discriminative representations over distributed local data but also perform data clustering. In FedMCC, a transformed data pair…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Runxuan Miao , Erdem Koyuncu

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a promising solution in Edge Computing (EC) environments to process the proliferation of data generated by edge devices. By collaboratively optimizing the global machine learning models on distributed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Yongzhe Jia , Xuyun Zhang , Amin Beheshti , Wanchun Dou

A label-efficient paradigm in computer vision is based on self-supervised contrastive pre-training on unlabeled data followed by fine-tuning with a small number of labels. Making practical use of a federated computing environment in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Nanqing Dong , Irina Voiculescu

Multi-Task Learning (MTL) involves the concurrent training of multiple tasks, offering notable advantages for dense prediction tasks in computer vision. MTL not only reduces training and inference time as opposed to having multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Maxime Fontana , Michael Spratling , Miaojing Shi

Federated learning (FL) is an emerging distributed machine learning paradigm that enables collaborative training of machine learning models over decentralized devices without exposing their local data. One of the major challenges in FL is…

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This study focuses on the feature extraction problem in multi-modal data regression. To address three core challenges in real-world scenarios: limited and non-IID data, effective extraction and fusion of multi-modal information, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Haozhe Wu

Federated learning (FL) enables collaboratively training deep learning models on decentralized data. However, there are three types of heterogeneities in FL setting bringing about distinctive challenges to the canonical federated learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-18 Tao Shen , Jie Zhang , Xinkang Jia , Fengda Zhang , Gang Huang , Pan Zhou , Kun Kuang , Fei Wu , Chao Wu

Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative learning across multiple clients. In most FL work, all clients train a single learning task. However, the recent proliferation of FL applications may increasingly require multiple FL tasks to be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Marie Siew , Haoran Zhang , Jong-Ik Park , Yuezhou Liu , Yichen Ruan , Lili Su , Stratis Ioannidis , Edmund Yeh , Carlee Joe-Wong

Federated learning (FL) aims to train machine learning (ML) models across potentially millions of edge client devices. Yet, training and customizing models for FL clients is notoriously challenging due to the heterogeneity of client data,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Yuxuan Zhu , Jiachen Liu , Mosharaf Chowdhury , Fan Lai

The standard class-incremental continual learning setting assumes a set of tasks seen one after the other in a fixed and predefined order. This is not very realistic in federated learning environments where each client works independently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Donald Shenaj , Marco Toldo , Alberto Rigon , Pietro Zanuttigh

Federated Learning (FL) is a privacy-protected machine learning paradigm that allows model to be trained directly at the edge without uploading data. One of the biggest challenges faced by FL in practical applications is the heterogeneity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Zirui Zhu , Ziyi Ye

Federated learning is a distributed machine learning paradigm that allows multiple participants to train a shared model by exchanging model updates instead of their raw data. However, its performance is degraded compared to centralized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Hyungbin Kim , Incheol Baek , Yon Dohn Chung

Federated learning, as a promising distributed learning paradigm, enables collaborative training of a global model across multiple network edge clients without the need for central data collecting. However, the heterogeneity of edge data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Xingyan Chen , Tian Du , Mu Wang , Tiancheng Gu , Yu Zhao , Gang Kou , Changqiao Xu , Dapeng Oliver Wu